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Predicting Probabilities of Flu Vaccination and Commuting Methods Having Elevated Flu Transmission Probabilities in New York City
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Aerial transmission and direct contact are important factors for flu. Consequently, close contact with large groups of people, such as during mass transit, present opportunities for transmission. One protective method that… read more… RESULTS “Mixing commute” and vaccination rates differ con- siderably by geographic areas and socio-demographic … -
Accounting for Acceleration of Disease Rates with Age in Biosurveillance Systems: The SIMPLE Method
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Accurate and precise estimation of disease rates for a given population during a specified time frame is a major concern for public health practitioners and researchers in biosurveillance. Many diseases follow distinct patterns;… read more… in National BioSurveillance Systems. Lec Notes Comp Sci 2007; 4506: 47-58. 3. Horiuchi S, Wilmoth JR. Age … -
The Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises
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On 27 April 2005, a simulated bioterrorist event—the aerosolized release of Francisella tularensis in the men’s room of luxury box seats at a sports stadium—was used to exercise the disease surveillance capability of the National Capital Region (NCR… read more… utili- zation behavior model at a time dependent on symp- tom onset and duration and at a location based on the … -
Earliest Event Detection: A Unique Approach Combining Syndromic Surveillance with Data Mining
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Syndromic surveillance is focused upon organizing data into categories to detect medium to large scale clusters of illness. Detection often requires that a critical threshold be surpassed. Data mining searches through data to identify records… read more… free text data to allow for rapid detection. When ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes are available, the same data mining … detected through data mining of both free- text and ICD-9-CM data. Most of these cases would never have been … -
Syndromic Surveillance and Heat Wave: Is it Working?
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Most of the time, health consequences of heat waves are serious. Heat wave response plans were developed for reducing health effects but even if they are very efficient it is not possible to eliminate all health consequences.… read more… very efficient it is not possible to eliminate all health con- sequences. It is therefore necessary to develop a … -
Beyond Detection: Attack Characterization with Syndromic and Clinical Data
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Most research in syndromic surveillance has emphasized early detection, but clinical diagnosis of the index case will tend to occur before detection by syndromic surveillance for certain types of outbreaks [1]. Syndromic surveillance may, however,… read more… outbreaks resulting from an aerosol anthrax release. We con- ducted 1,000 simulations for each of 12 scenarios … -
Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports
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Syndromic surveillance is an investigational approach used to monitor trends of illness in communities. It relies on pre-diagnostic health data rather than laboratory-confirmed clinical diagnoses. Its primary purpose is to detect… read more… gastrointestinal, hemorrhagic, influenza-like, shock/coma, neurologic, fever, febrile, rash, botulism-like, and … -
Primary Care Surveillance in the UK - Actions, Outcomes, Benefits
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Routine primary care data provide the means to systematically monitor a variety of syndromes which could give early warning of health protection issues (microbiological and chemical). It is possible to track milder illnesses which may not present to… read more… (FFPH), 3R George (MB BS, MSc, FRCPath), 4J Hippisley-Cox (FRCGP, MD, MRCP, DRCOG). (1) Health Protection Agency …